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From: "Paul E. Lawrence" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] getting rid of the 2 in ID 2:30
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 15:55:05 -0600
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At 04:47 PM 11/2/2005 -0500, David S. Flower wrote:
>I have an old Project that must have been a result of a merge from two
>sources.
>
>All of the people have an ID that begins with 2: and I'd like to clean it
>up so every one has an ID without the 2: in it.

The 2: indicates the data set number. If you have no data set 1: you can
renumber 2: to 1: and then the number in front of the colon will not show.
Go to File>Data Set Manager...if only the one data set is listed then
select it and click on Renumber and change the number to 1.....



Paul E. Lawrence


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